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Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Published by the American Mathematical Society since 1950, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society is devoted to shorter research articles in all areas of pure and applied mathematics.

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Tarski’s problem for solvable groups
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by Pat Rogers, Howard Smith and Donald Solitar
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 96 (1986), 668-672
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1986-0826500-0

Abstract:

In this paper, we show that the free solvable groups (as well as the free nilpotent groups) of finite rank have different elementary theories (i.e., they do not satisfy the same first order sentences of group theory). This result is obtained using a result in group theory (probably due to Malcev and following immediately from a theorem of Auslander and Lyndon) that, for a free nontrivial solvable group, the last nontrivial group in its derived series is is own centralizer.
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Bibliographic Information
  • © Copyright 1986 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 96 (1986), 668-672
  • MSC: Primary 03C60; Secondary 20A15, 20E05
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1986-0826500-0
  • MathSciNet review: 826500